Not Ranbir Kapoor But Ranveer Singh Was The First Choice To Play Sanjay Dutt In ¡®Sanju¡¯

It was Rajukumar Hirani¡¯s idea to make a biopic on Sanjay Dutt. When he had told about it to producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, at first he thought he had lost his mind. When Hirani called up Ranbir to tell him that he wanted to discuss a script with him, Ranbir¡¯s wrote to him that he hopes it wasn¡¯t the rumoured Sanjay Dutt biopic. But in the end, they all agreed to make the movie, and going by the trailer it looks promising and hell lot interesting.

Ranbir Kapoor¡¯s performance in the movie has been praised by one and all. The man has effortlessly got into the shoes of Sanjay Dutt, and it¡¯s tough to make out if it¡¯s Ranbir or Sanjay Dutt himself. But did you know that Ranveer Singh and not Ranbir Kapoor was the first choice to play Sanjay Dutt in Sanju?

¡°When he told me about Ranbir, I wasn¡¯t happy at all. I thought someone else, like Ranveer Singh, could play this role much better. I thought Ranveer had the flamboyance, the emotional depth as well as the ability to change himself completely to play Sanjay Dutt. But Raju was adamant that Ranbir would be perfect. And when we started shooting and Ranbir became Sanjay Dutt, I had to kind of eat my words,¡± Vidhu Vinod Chopra told Telegraph in an interview.

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Also talking about when Rajkumar Hirani told him about the idea of making Sanju, he said he reacted like this, ¡°What¡¯s there in Sanjay Dutt¡¯s life that merits being made into a film?! It¡¯s better you make a film on my life¡­ how I left Kashmir as a young boy and struggled when I came to Bombay.¡¯ (Laughs) I thought Raju and Abhijat (Joshi, Sanju¡¯s co-writer) had lost their minds!"

But when read the script, he was taken by surprise.

¡°When he (Hirani) sat me down and started narrating all that had happened in Sanju¡¯s life, I was stunned! At first, I thought it was hogwash¡­ that Sanju was somehow not telling Raju the truth, but when we started researching all that he¡¯s said ¡ª from the 308 girlfriends he had to how he begged on the streets of US for the money to buy a bus ticket ¡ª we realised that everything he had told us was true!¡±

Sanju is slated to hit the screens on June 29.

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